14 open source alternatives100% OSI-approved licensesUpdated June 2026
Shopify turned launching a store into an afternoon's work: hosted checkout, payments, themes, and an app store deep enough that most merchants never touch a server. For getting a product to first sale it is genuinely hard to beat. The friction shows up once the store works. Shopify charges a monthly plan and then takes a cut of every order unless you route payments through Shopify Payments, so the platform's revenue scales with yours - and the checkout, the part that actually converts, is the one piece you cannot fully customize or move, because it lives inside Shopify.
The open source alternatives below give you the same storefront-catalog-checkout stack on infrastructure you run. The full purchase flow is yours to theme and extend, your catalog and orders sit in a database you can query and back up directly, and the only cut anyone takes on a sale is your payment processor's - there is no platform fee riding on top of your revenue.
Medusa is an open-source commerce platform with a built-in customization framework for building digital commerce applications without rebuilding core commerce logic. It gives developers foundational commerce primitives such as products, carts, orders, and payments to assemble into the exact store they need.
Commerce primitives for products, carts, orders, and payments
Open-source commerce modules published on npm
Customization framework to extend or replace commerce logic
Backs B2B, DTC, marketplaces, point of sale, and services
Bagisto is an open source ecommerce platform built on Laravel, PHP, and Vue.js for running online stores and moving physical retail online. It ships catalog, cart, checkout, and order management out of the box, with more than 100 prebuilt extensions and storefronts that can be localized across more than 20 languages.
Catalog, cart, checkout, and order management out of the box
B2B commerce with company purchasing and quote negotiation
Multi-vendor marketplace with seller, commission, and order tools
Multi-tenant ecommerce for SaaS storefronts under one system
Saleor is a GraphQL-native, API-only commerce platform for composable storefronts. Every part of the backend is configured and extended through the API rather than a monolithic plugin core, so custom logic stays separate from the platform and apps deploy independently.
GraphQL-only API for backend interaction and extension
Webhooks, apps, metadata, and API extensions
Multi-currency, multi-language, and multi-warehouse support
Spree is an open-source headless ecommerce platform for cross-border storefronts, B2B wholesale, and custom commerce backends. It combines a REST API, TypeScript SDK, admin dashboard, and Next.js storefront so teams keep ownership of their code, data, and infrastructure under a BSD 3-Clause core license with no platform or transaction fees.
REST API with publishable keys, rate limiting, and OpenAPI 3.0 spec
TypeScript SDK with autocomplete and type safety
Next.js storefront with multi-region routing and customer accounts
Markets for currencies, languages, payment methods, and shipping rules
Magento Open Source is ecommerce software for building and running an online store from the ground up. It gives merchants the core building blocks of a storefront, with full access to source code they can inspect, extend, and customize to fit how their business sells.
Core storefront for building an online store from the ground up
WooCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Installed as a plugin, it turns any WordPress site into an online store that you fully own, giving you control of your checkout, your data, and your costs rather than tying the business to a closed, hosted platform.
Ecommerce store built on WordPress with full ownership
Product catalog, cart, and checkout
Orders, customers, shipping, and tax
Provider-agnostic payments, online and offline selling
EverShop is a TypeScript-first ecommerce platform built with GraphQL and React for running online stores. It pairs a customer-facing storefront with an admin panel for managing catalog, orders, and store settings, and is built for developers who want to shape the shopping experience around their own requirements rather than a fixed template.
Storefront and admin panel for catalog and orders
GraphQL API exposing store data to any frontend
React storefront customizable through themes
Modular architecture extended without forking the core
nopCommerce is a free, open-source ecommerce platform for building online stores of any size and type. It is one of the most popular ASP.NET Core shopping carts, runs on .NET 9 with an MS SQL backend, and also supports PostgreSQL and MySQL. The application is cross-platform across Windows, Linux, and Mac, and ships with Docker support out of the box.
Catalog and shopping cart for stores of any size
Runs on .NET 9 with MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
Multi-factor authentication and web farm support built in
Web API plugin exposing REST methods for apps and services
PrestaShop is an open-source ecommerce web application built to give merchants and their customers the best shopping cart experience. Written in PHP, it runs a complete online store with a customizable storefront and a fully responsive front and back office for managing the catalog, orders, and day-to-day selling.
Customizable storefront and shopping cart
Supports all the major payment services
Translated into many languages, localized for many countries
Responsive front and back office for store management
Sylius is an open-source ecommerce framework built on the Symfony PHP framework and API Platform. It is aimed at mid-market and enterprise brands that need a store tailored to specific business requirements rather than a fixed, one-size-fits-all platform.
Headless ecommerce framework on Symfony and API Platform
REST API for custom storefronts and integrations
Product catalog, cart, checkout, orders, and customers
Vendure is an open-source TypeScript commerce backend for catalog, orders, pricing, promotions, and customers. It is built for teams that want one coherent, extensible backend instead of rigid SaaS systems or a DIY stack of separate commerce services.
GraphQL commerce backend on NestJS and TypeScript
Plugin architecture with stable extension contracts
Catalog, orders, pricing, promotions, customers, and stock
Solidus is a free, open-source ecommerce platform built with Ruby on Rails, giving merchants complete control over their online store. It is a full commerce solution with a storefront, an admin area, and a RESTful API rather than a single isolated component.
Storefront, admin area, and RESTful API
Product catalog, cart, and checkout
Orders, customers, and payment handling
Use the full stack or core-only with your own frontend
Microweber is a drag-and-drop website builder and content management system based on PHP and the Laravel framework. It is built to create websites, online stores, and blogs without technical expertise, with a focus on visual editing and content management.
Drag-and-drop editing for images, text, videos, modules, and layouts
Kriol Open Source Point of Sales (kriolosPOS) is a desktop point of sale application for retail checkout and store operations. It is a fork of uniCenta oPOS 4.5, which itself descends from OpenbravoPOS and the earlier Librepos (Tina POS), continuing a long lineage of open source Java POS software.
